On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:47 PM, dennis luehring <dl.soluz@gmx.net> wrote:

Am 14.07.2012 14:52, schrieb Timon Gehr:

On 07/14/2012 01:29 PM, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:

It would also make run-time mixins possible, which is absolutely amazing.

It is amazingly unsafe, because at runtime there is no distinction
between strings generated by the program and strings created from input
to the program.

as everything that works based on input data - its only the context what makes any type of input (and handling) unsafe

think of an system that needs an fast interpreter for a small subset of the D language - why should i use lua, python or something else here? - the runtime-mixing wouldn't be unsage if generated by the interpreting D program...

the other thing is: would you vote against such a feature if it were already there?

the next thing would be the D compiler as a library - then we can use D (better rdmd) as a hyper-powerful make

and yes i know - everything is possible by invoking dmd executable and some lib magic - but integrating it (better - make it part of the language standard) would be far better - then D can compete with java, .net and all the others having this feature-set already (seems to be that someone needs stuff like that)